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New Strange Problem

Ive been having the following problem all day long. When I use any of the formatting icons (bold, italic, etc), the cursor disappears and I cannot finish my post. The only way I can finish a whole post is if I type in the whole message and then go back and format the word I want to bold. If I need to format more than one word, Im out of luck.

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Re: New Strange Problem

Originally Posted by MikelaC1

Ive been having the following problem all day long. When I use any of the formatting icons (bold, italic, etc), the cursor disappears and I cannot finish my post. The only way I can finish a whole post is if I type in the whole message and then go back and format the word I want to bold. If I need to format more than one word, Im out of luck.

Are you typing in the formatting tokens, or using the buttons at the top? What browser and operating system are you using? What other programs and tabs do you have open? When I use firefox in linux I have a similar problem with facebook under conditions that I have not bothered to explore.

If nothing else, you could add tags manually.
[i]italics[/i]
[spoiler]spoilers[/spoiler]
[b]bold[/bold]
[url="www.giantitp.com"]link to www.giantitp.com[/url]
[noparse]even tags that turn off other tags[/noparse]

Originally Posted by Wardog

Rockphed said it well.

Originally Posted by Yuki Akuma

We should change the collective noun for crocodiles to "an abundance of crocodiles".

Re: New Strange Problem

That... doesn't really help us troubleshoot your problem. I assume you don't know how to get the version number?

In my version of IE (I have 9 on my PC), up in the top right corner you click on the "Tools" link (it looks like a little gear), and when that menu comes up you select "About Internet Explorer." That page will give you the version number.

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Also, did anything change on your computer? Does your PC regularly update Windows, for example, and if so did that run recently? Did you apply an add-on into IE? Did your version of Java update? Flash? Any new software recently?

Last edited by Zherog; 2012-05-07 at 08:37 AM.

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Re: New Strange Problem

I have IE 9.
I have my computer programmed to do its updates late at night when I am not using it, so I have no idea if it updated recently. Nothing else was changed and nothing has been added in months.

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Re: New Strange Problem

I've occasionally had the cursor disappear myself using various recent versions of Firefox...

Usually I just rely on clicking my invisible cursor to where I want it to be and carry on regardless, but take additional care in case of typos... and my formatting in those posts tends to be a mix of button-based and manual...